Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1884 — Suggestive Questions for Workmen. [ARTICLE]

Suggestive Questions for Workmen.

Has not the Republican party controlled the, national administration tor almost twenty-four years? Has It not enacted all the laws during that time? Has it not executed the laws by men of its choice? Has the party brought prosperity to you and your families? Are you working for good wages all the time? Are there no mills closed? Are wages not cut down? Do you find living < heap, rents low, provisions abundant and low priced, clothing and other supplies down to the cut in pay ? How many days have you been idle since last New Year’s? Can you tell when work will be abundant and wages good? Are business affa rs satisfactory to you? Did not tiie Republican party make business affairs what they are and as bad as they are? How much more are, your wages to-’day than they were pour years ago, wi en this same Republican party promised you more pav and more work if yon would support the ticket? Who has grown richer in the last four years of Republican p 1 cv? you or the men who were rich ihen and who-sect to allure you with the same sort of argnm nt now? Don’t you remember th it you were told that if you would vote tor Garfield you would have prosperity; for Han ock, adversity? What have you now?— Albany A t ons.